TWiV #92 - Live at ASV in Bozeman

Vincent, Rich, Karla, and Marilyn recorded TWiV at the 29th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Virology in Bozeman, where they discussed plant viruses and how they make plants resistant to adverse conditions, and identification of dominant negative drug targets.

Host links Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Karla Kirkegaard, and Marilyn Roosinck

Links for this episode:

• Lifestyles of plant viruses
• Using pyrosequencing to understand virus ecology
• A virus in a fungus in a plant
• Trans-dominant inhibition of RNA viral replication
• Resistance is futile
• Announcement of TWiV at ASV (pdf)
• Photographs of TWiV at ASV
• Letters read on TWiV 92

Weekly science picks:

Marilyn - Viruses in the faecal microbiota of monozygotic twins and their mothers (Nature)
Rich - The Known Universe by the American Museum of Natural History
Vincent - The Red Queen by Matt Ridley (thanks, Jesper!)